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Bodhi_Spirit
05-03-2013, 12:59 AM
I was told yesterday that the spiritual experiences I've had as of late last year and this year were all part of my spiritual evolution. That I would be becoming almost a completely different person in a sense. It was also suggested that I may want to change my name. Has anyone else taken on a new name after a spiritual awakening? What are your thoughts?
Quagmire
05-03-2013, 01:19 AM
I have not, yet have speculated on it as it could be a way of releasing any old energy attached to one's name. Now that I think about it I did change my name in here after the spiritual awakening I had February 2012.
Bodhi_Spirit
05-03-2013, 02:48 AM
I have not, yet have speculated on it as it could be a way of releasing any old energy attached to one's name. Now that I think about it I did change my name in here after the spiritual awakening I had February 2012.
Yeah I also thought of it that way. As a means of releasing any energy attached to a name. I'm pondering the idea but have no clue how to go about finding a new name. I suppose I could ask the universe to provide me with one?
psychoslice
05-03-2013, 03:27 AM
But who is going to wear this new name, God has no names, no matter what name we choose, its not who we truly are, its just another name.
Bodhi_Spirit
05-03-2013, 03:44 AM
But who is going to wear this new name, God has no names, no matter what name we choose, its not who we truly are, its just another name.
Well if you think of it in the terms of energy and vibration your name is an important thing. When people think of you they of you they often think of your name. When your being addressed your name is used. So all of that energy and it's vibration is not only attached to a name but the person.
psychoslice
05-03-2013, 03:50 AM
Well if you think of it in the terms of energy and vibration your name is an important thing. When people think of you they of you they often think of your name. When your being addressed your name is used. So all of that energy and it's vibration is not only attached to a name but the person.
Yes the person, the persona, or mask, your name is no different than a concept, I'm not saying not to call yourself a different name, but it will still be you, just a new name.
Bodhi_Spirit
05-03-2013, 06:08 AM
Yes the person, the persona, or mask, your name is no different than a concept, I'm not saying not to call yourself a different name, but it will still be you, just a new name.
If you knew me five years ago and spoke with me today you would be speaking to a different person in every sense. I'm also sure that I will continue to change.
So if someone is not the same person they were at birth or even five years ago will it really "still be you"? I don't believe so.
psychoslice
05-03-2013, 06:16 AM
If you knew me five years ago and spoke with me today you would be speaking to a different person in every sense. I'm also sure that I will continue to change.
So if someone is not the same person they were at birth or even five years ago will it really "still be you"? I don't believe so.
As long as you identify yourself with your mind body, believing its you, then yes you will always be the same.
I've used internal names that represent a part of my journey. But I don't use them at the bank or on my driving licence.
They are metaphoric names. They work much as native American names taken at the passage into adulthood work.
They remind me of who I am, and they tell me of the journey I am on.
My name here is Meadows - a meadow is a place full of nutients and healing herbs. It is destroyed externally each year to return in the spring. It thrives on floodplanes, mountain tops that are covered in snow all winter and grassland that is harvested. So it is a strong symbol of the turning of death/life.
tabane27
05-03-2013, 11:43 AM
When i was 25 i was suffering really bad depression and locked myself away from the world and did feel part of it, i then started having a spiritual awakening and seemed like a quick needed thing. I was ready to give up and was empty and questioned everything and it begun.
I still dont know what happened other than i was reborn into me again but the old me was gone.
I found myself at the solicitors changing my surname at first, thete was an inpulse that a spat out to the solicitor, i want my first name changed. I used to be called tabatha anne but insisted it was swapped, so it was.
I walkef out the building holding the signed papers with great release, i had put that name tabatha behind and started a new with anne.
Within 2 weeks i walked out of a relationship that was no longer needed and i was a completly different person.
I look back to the girl i once was and does not fit who i am now, my personality changed over night and the depression was none existance.
My first name before change had allot of past glued to it and could not release it, i didnt make sense at the time but know i see. Know im anne i dont let things glue to it, i release.
Bluegreen
05-03-2013, 01:39 PM
Ask a numerologist if changing one's name effects change. The answer will be affirmative.
I remember reading once how how the person who starred in the movie Annie get your gun became successful only after she had changed her name to Betty Hutton.
Arcturus
05-03-2013, 07:24 PM
i find it irksome, which is my bag, when folk, particularly westerners, give themself indian names...
swami vecta3'ji
Belle
05-03-2013, 08:42 PM
I am Belle, my flesh and blood and bones remain mine along with my name and have been with me as such since birth.
I don't recognise myself in terms of spirit but that doesn't matter. And those who knew me as Belle of a few years ago don't equate the two beings.
Whether or not I will feel a call to change from Belle in years to come - who knows. It's not something that had occurred to me as a possibilty. I love hearing new concepts.
I think this is a personal choice tho. If you feel the pull towards something specific, then go for it and that's my 2cents. Don't change for the sake of change, change towards something not away from something.
(if that makes sense)
Animus27
05-03-2013, 08:59 PM
I was told yesterday that the spiritual experiences I've had as of late last year and this year were all part of my spiritual evolution. That I would be becoming almost a completely different person in a sense. It was also suggested that I may want to change my name. Has anyone else taken on a new name after a spiritual awakening? What are your thoughts?
If you do, please don't choose one of those obnoxious compounded names of natural phenomenon and animals.
"River-running Jaguar"
"Rainbow Moon-dog"
"Silver Sparrow Jewel"
:icon_scratch:
On a more serious note - the idea of taking a new name because of an awakening is actually anathema to being spiritual. Having a nice new, fancy, name to cling to is just a way to feed your sense of self. Which leads to more attachment and self importance, which ultimately bear fruits of dissatisfaction and confusion.
Animus27
05-03-2013, 09:01 PM
i find it irksome, which is my bag, when folk, particularly westerners, give themself indian names...
swami vecta3'ji
Haha! Yes. I always want to do a Linda-Blair-head-spin-projectile-vomit whenever someone tries to latch onto a "spiritual" name from another culture.
Bodhi_Spirit
06-03-2013, 01:11 AM
Personally I see nothing wrong with a westerner taking on a Sanskrit name if it is given to them by their Guru or an enlightened master. As far as taking on a name full of nature name as mentioned earlier I see nothing wrong with that either. However I believe I would leave the nature names to those people that feel pulled to have them, I love the outdoors but it's not me. I was thinking more in terms of the energy a name gives off as believed in numerology.
peacegarden
06-03-2013, 02:34 PM
I changed my name by deed poll about 5 years ago. It just felt right, like the old me had died, or at least I needed to let go of the old me. I know it's just a tag, but for me it was an inspiring change. I may change my name again in the future who knows, maybe I'll end up with a buddhist name.
Bluegreen
09-04-2013, 12:42 PM
Edgar Cayce answered it thus:
How did Abraham benefit by changing his name from Abram to Abraham?" and Saul to Paul.
"..the changing or altering of a name set up vibrations that are more conducive to changed surroundings."
CrystalSong
09-04-2013, 05:06 PM
After my awakening I studied sometime under a gentleman who was a bohdi, after accomplishing certain basic separations in my construct of 'self' and shedding much of who'd I'd been and what had been believed in and in many ways becoming a lighter person with no rigid beliefs left, just openness and the beginnings of Unconditional love for all life, he surprised me one day by giving me a new name to commemorate the new person I'd grown into. It was a profound honor. I do not use this name (legally or introduce myself as such) but keep it to myself only on occasion telling someone whom has the ability to understand why it was given.
Many of the American Indian tribes have both a birth name (family name) and a spirit name which was given to them by a shaman, they only tell their spirit name under the rarest of circumstances, I follow more along with that tradition. The name I was given by the bohdi is not for public consumption, but a personal reminder that another had seen the new eternal self rising out of the shell of the former earthbound self. Each letter in the name was considered and stands for something specific and also acts as a reminder to not return to where I had come from.
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